Mark Antony later charged that Octavian had earned his adoption by Caesar through sexual favours, though Suetonius, in his work Lives of the Twelve Caesars, describes Antony's accusation as political slander.

In certain cases, as with the German Dolchstoßlegende, the accusation of treason towards a large group of people can be a unifying political message.

Many different disagreements led to the fracture, for example ; while at the Fourth SI Conference in London in December, 1960, in a discussion about the political nature of the SI, the Gruppe SPUR members disagreed with the core situationist stance of counting on a revolutionary proletariat ; the accusation that their activities were based on a " systematic misunderstanding of situationist theses "; the understanding that at least one Gruppe SPUR member, sculptor Lothar Fischer, and possibly the rest of the group, were not actually understanding and / or agreeing with the situationist ideas, but were just using the SI to achieve success in the art market.

Consequently, he was impeached by his political adversaries, by an accusation of embezzlement of the Etruscan loot.

Anneli Jäätteenmäki resigned on 18 June 2003, under pressure resulting from the accusation that she had lied to Parliament and the public over how she had acquired confidential Foreign Ministry documents which she used for political purposes during the election campaign.

This accusation could have meant the end of his political career.

The reasons for their agreement, despite the loss of political power that it entailed for the Malay rulers, has been much debated ; the consensus appears to be that the main reasons were that as the Malay rulers were of course resident during the Japanese occupation, they were open to the accusation of collaboration, and that they were threatened with dethronement.

The Kulturkampf had reinforced the Catholic character of the Centre Party, but even during it Ludwig Windthorst had defended the party against Bismarck's accusation of being a " denominational party " in describing the Centre as " a political party with a comprehensive political programme and open to anyone, who accepts it ".

Often, the candidate is right in this accusation, but one candidate's " dirty trick " is another's " political strategy.

During the 1930s, as the cultural and political climate changed, Iorga's main accusation against Tudor Arghezi, Lucian Blaga, Mircea Eliade, Liviu Rebreanu, George Mihail Zamfirescu and other Romanian modernists was their supposed practice of literary " pornography ".

The Maoists labeled the government forces " feudal forces ," and included in this accusation was the monarchy and the mainstream political parties.

The accusation of stealing the elections heavily helped Băsescu win the elections, some political analysts argue.

But this ascent was not always smooth or without hardships, as he was once sued because of all the calumnies that his political opponents promoted and he was suspended from all his functions in 1864, but the verdict of discharge from the following year proved the baselessness of all the accusation against him.

A jailer who had personal contact with her lauded her character and behavior and modern women scholars review this kind of accusation as part of a pattern faced by women leaders and writers then and since in a way that Azar Nafisi says "… the Islamic regime today … fears them and feels vulnerable in the face of a resistance that is not just political but existential.

Yet, the liberal social and economic policies, derived from the new political constitution and the “ spiritual socialism ” philosophy of President Arévalo Bermejo, provoked the ruling class gentry and the urban bourgeoisie to first distrust, and then accuse the President of Guatemala of supporting communism — a serious personal imputation and political accusation during the Cold War, of which the US Government took serious note.

As with his predecessor, President Juan José Arévalo Bermejo ( 1945 – 51 ), and because of the liberal changes to the economy of Guatemala, the land-owning upper classes and the political factions in the military, publicly accused President Árbenz of being unduly influenced by the four-man PGT Communist minority in the fifty-six-member senate of Guatemala — a serious personal imputation and political accusation during the Cold War, of which the US Government took serious note.

The public-opinion pressure generated by the UFC disinformation campaign compelled President Eisenhower to become involved in the private-business vs. national-government quarrel of the United Fruit Company, lest he appear to be “ soft on Communism ” in Guatemala — a serious personal imputation and great political accusation of which the American public took serious note, especially during the McCarthy Era.

He found acting work in television, but CBS ousted him after receiving an anonymous accusation that he had addressed a political meeting.

The accusation was probably political, but nevertheless damaged his standing somewhat.

Verma builds his political discourse on the accusation that northern Haryana has been discriminated against by politicians from western Haryana.

When a newspaper published a political cartoon portraying railroad tycoon Collis Potter Huntington leading the governor around on a leash, Gage was so incensed by the accusation that he ramrodded a censorship bill through the California State Legislature, restricting the press whenever editorial content involved politics or politicians.

" In support of this, he referred to " the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero .... As Eric Alterman reports in his recent book — a book that I'm proud to have helped make happen — part of the red meat strategy is to attack mainstream media relentlessly, knowing that if the press is effectively intimidated, either by the accusation of liberal bias or by a reporter's own mistaken belief in the charge's validity, the institutions that conservatives revere — corporate America, the military, organized religion, and their own ideological bastions of influence — will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence over American public life with relatively no challenge.

Many of Bruton's opponents considered him to be too willing to accommodate unionist demands ( in one famous accusation, Albert Reynolds referred to him as " John Unionist ").

The term " rootless cosmopolitan " referred mostly ( but not explicitly ) to Jewish intellectuals, as an accusation in their lack of patriotism, i. e., lack of full allegiance to the Soviet Union.

In 1240 Nicholas Donin, with the support of Pope Gregory IX, referred to Yeshu narratives to support his accusation that the Jewish community had attacked the Virginity of Mary and the divinity of Jesus.

In 1372, John of Valladolid, with the support of the Archbishop of Toledo, made a similar accusation against the Jewish community ; Moses ha-Kohen de Tordesillas argued that the Yeshu narratives referred to different people and could not have referred to Jesus of Nazareth.

According to Barrett, the most common accusation made against groups referred to as cults is sexual abuse ( see some allegations made by former members ).

In the Speyer letter of protection, referred to above, the emperor disapproved of the accusation of ritual murder, and he ordained that no Jew should be put in prison or sentenced for this crime without sufficient proof.

The process of Innocent's beatification was introduced in 1741 by Benedict XIV and continued by Clement XI and Clement XII ; but French influence and the accusation of Jansenism caused it to be suspended in 1744.

In the course of this argument Stoecker, the ex-court chaplain, repeated the accusation of ritual murder, and hinted at Jewish influence as the cause of the failure to find the murderer ( 7 February 1892 ).

It was only when, in July of the same year, Oates's accusation against the Queen's physician, Sir George Wakeman, appeared likely to involve the Queen herself in the ramifications of the plot, that Scroggs began to think matters were going too far ; he was probably also influenced by the discovery that the court regarded the plot with discredit and disfavour, and that the country party led by Shaftesbury had less influence than he had supposed with the King.

Although in 32 an important senator ( Cotta Messalinus ) openly attacked him because of his excessive influence in the senate, this accusation had no consequences.

The accusation would have more influence on Featherston's life than he could ever have imagined at the time.

As we hear no further accusation on the Easter question — not even in those brought against his successor at Luxeuil Abbey, Eustasius of Luxeuil in 624 — it would appear that after Columbanus had moved to Italy, he gave up the Celtic Easter ( cf.

Achish marches against Saul, but David is excused from the war on the accusation of the Philistine nobles that his loyalty to their cause cannot be trusted.

The accusation of having committed a fallacy might rest on either of two grounds: ( 1 ) the relativism on which the bogus defense rests is so simple and meritless that it straightforwardly contradicts the Law of Non-Contradiction ; or ( 2 ) the defense ( and thus the fallacy itself ) is an example of ad hoc reasoning.

After the 1980 coup d ’ état he served some time in Doe ’ s government until he was sacked in 1983 on accusation of embezzling government funds.

Lichten labelled any criticism of the pope's actions during World War II as " a stupefying paradox " and said, " no one who reads the record of Pius XII's actions on behalf of Jews can subscribe to Hochhuth's accusation.

It was on Moscow Radio, on 2 June 1945, that the first accusation directly against Pius XII of refusing to speak out against the exterminations in Nazi concentration camps.

The ambassadors, on the contrary, assured their sovereigns that the accusation was a pretext.

His affection for teenage girls led to an accusation of impropriety where he taught music, and while he was exonerated, he decided to concentrate on teaching boys afterwards.

This is a common accusation made by the anti-globalization movement which argues that governments have been elected on a mandate to oppose global free trade and instead pursued it.

Russian President Vladimir Putin made this accusation at the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy in 2007, concluding that these NGOs " are formally independent but they are purposefully financed and therefore under control.

The accusation, aimed at politically destroying Moro and avoiding the risk of a " Historic Compromise " cabinet, failed when Moro was cleared on March 3, 1978, 13 days before his kidnapping.

Alarmed, Gandalf impressed on Bilbo the foolishness of this accusation.

The fact that the quotas were to be based on the 1890 census, immediately prior to the influx of those Jews, rather than the 1920 census, lends credence to that accusation.

In fact, as early as the AFRC administration in 1979, Rawlings and his associates had accused three former military leaders ( generals Afrifa, Acheampong, and Akuffo ) of corruption and greed and of thereby contributing to the national crisis and had executed them on the basis of this accusation.

The precise format varies from one country to another and may also depend on the severity of the accusation.

In 1993, Wolde was arrested on the accusation that he participated in a Red Terror execution during the regime of the dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam.

After Stanbery refused to answer Houston's letters about the accusation, Houston confronted him on Pennsylvania Avenue and beat him with a hickory cane.

" Regarding Jewish traditions, Jews for Jesus says on its website: " As for the accusation that we ' fraudulently use Jewish symbols and Jewish holidays ,' we have a right to use Jewish symbols by virtue of our ancestry, and we have a right to celebrate Passover and other Jewish holidays and interpret them according to the teachings of Scripture.

This version effectively mitigates the accusation that Tiberius ever laid hands on an inviolate person such as Octavius, instead showing that Tiberius won his support with full legality.

There never was a formal accusation against Richard III on the matter ; the Bill of Attainder brought by Henry VII made no definitive mention of the Princes in the Tower, but it did include the accusation of " shedding of Infants blood ", which may be an accusation of the Princes ' murder ( especially since there are no other " infants " Richard had ever been accused of killing ).